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| | x x Ian has lived and worked in the Mid West all of his life. For most of his life, Ian was involved in farming grain and sheep. He spent time in the local Army Reserve Unit, as a Grain Councillor for the WA Farmers Federation, a member of the Advisory Committee of the Mid West Development Authority and as a farmer member of the Western Panel of the Grains Research and Development Corporation. Ian is the patron of the Geraldton Surf Life Saving Club, the patron of the Greenough Rifle Club, and the vice-patron of the Western Australian Rifle Association. He is a member of the WA Farmers’ Federation, the Midwest Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Geraldton Rotary Club. Contact Details and Speeches Biography Facebook ; Twitter | | Geraldton Electorate Map xx  (Click map for larger image) | |
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| | About the Geraldton Electorate | | |
| Area (km2) 1,798; Number of Electors: 23,205 Western Australian Electoral Commission. State Electorate Information. Nomenclature: The largest city in Western Australia north of Perth, Geraldton is located on the coast 424 kilometres north north west of Perth. The city is located on Champion Bay, discovered by Commander D. Dring in the colonial schooner Champion in January 1840. The bay was named by the Royal Navy hydrographic surveyor, J.L. Stokes, who surveyed it later in 1840. The Geraldton area was first explored by George Grey in 1839. In 1848 copper and lead were discovered on the Murchison River, and later that same year the Governor, Charles Fitzgerald, inspected the mineral deposits himself. On this trip he was speared in the leg by local Aborigines. The first exports of ore from the Murchison mines was made from Champion Bay in 1849, and soon after in 1850 surveyor Augustus Gregory was instructed to survey a townsite at this place. By March 1850 Gregory had surveyed 40 half-acre allotments, and on June 3 1851 the townsite of Geraldton was declared. The name was most probably given by Surveyor General J.S. Roe, and honours the colony's Governor at that time, Captain Charles Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald was born in Ireland in 1791, and joined the Royal Navy in 1809. He rose to the rank of Captain in 1840 , and was Governor of Western Australia from 1848 to 1855. Source: Western Australia. Department of Land Administration. Names and Places. Suburbs: Beachlands, Beresford, Bluff Point, Bootenal, Bringo, Burma Road, Cape Burney, Deepdale, Drummond Cove, East Chapman, Ellendale, Eradu, Eradu South, Georgina, Geraldton, Glenfield, Greenough, Karloo, Kojarena, Mahomets Flats, Meru, Minnenooka, Moonyoonooka, Moresby, Mt Hill, Mt Tarcoola, Narngulu, Northern Gully, Rangeway, Rudds Gully, Sandsprings, South Greenough, Spalding, Strathalbyn, Sunset Beach, Tarcoola Beach, Tibradden, Utakarra, Waggrakine*, Walkaway, Wandina, Webberton, West End, Wicherina, Wonthella and Woorree * = Suburb/Town split between more than one District. Source: Western Australian Electoral Commission. State Electorate Information. Local Governments within District City of Greater Geraldton | | Local Newspapers: Geraldton Guardian Midwest Times Yamaji News Books about Geraldton: Geraldton - 150 years, 150 lives (200p. Geraldton Regional Library, 2001) Geraldton - a photographic history (272p. Geraldton Regional Library, 2004) Mary Bain: a life of its own - a social and economic history of the City of Geraldton and the Shire of Greenough, 1846-1988 (363p. City of Geraldton, 1996) Constance Norris: Memories of Champion Bay of old Geraldton (117p. Soroptimist International, 1989) Helen Wilson: Geraldton sketchbook (64p. Rigby, 1976) Schools in the Geraldton Electorate: Allendale Primary School Beachlands Primary School Bluff Point Primary School Champion Bay Senior High School Geraldton Primary School Geraldton Senior College Holland Street School John Willcock College Meekatharra School of the Air Midwest Engagement Centre Mount Tarcoola Primary School Rangeway Primary School Waggrakine Primary School Walkaway Primary School Wandina Primary School Others: Geraldton Flexible Learning Centre Geraldton Grammar School Leaning Tree Community School Nagle Catholic College St Francis Xavier Primary School St John's School St Lawrence's Primary School Strathalbyn Christian College | |
| | 2017 Election Result | | |
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Successive Members for the Geraldton District |
 Edward Keane | Constituency created under the Redistribution of Seats, 2015
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| By-elections for the District | ||
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| 1891 | Resignation of Edward Vivian Hartley Keane, November 1891. George Thomas Simpson elected. | |
| 1899 | Resignation of George Thomas Simpson, 27 June 1899. Richard Robson elected. | |
| 1900 | Resignation of Richard Robson, 13 June 1900. Robert David Hutchinson elected. | |
| 1906 | Occasioned by the upholding of a petition against the return of Henry Carson 26 October 1906; seat declared vacant 30 October 1906. Thomas Leishman Brown elected. | |
| 1913 | Death of Bronterre Washington Dooley, 3 October 1913. Samuel Richard Lewes Elliott elected. | |
| 1917 | Resignation of Edward Ernest Heitmann, 20 March 1917. Samuel Richard Lewes Elliott elected. | |
| 1991 | Resignation of Jeffrey Phillip Carr, 28 February 1991. Robert (Bob) Clyde Bloffwitch elected. | |
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